Sugary soft drinks associated with increased heart disease risk in women
Posted on 23 February 2009
Conventional nutritional wisdom dictates that heart disease risk can be influenced through our intake of fat. Specifically, saturated fat (found in foods such as meat, dairy products, eggs and coconut) promotes heart disease, while certain foods (for example, omega-3 fats found in oily fish) do the reverse. I do think there
Published February 23, 2009 . Filed under: Diabetes/Metabolic Syndrome, Healthy Eating, Specific conditions, Unhealthy Eating!, Women's Health
Hi John,
I’m with you on this one!
It is recorded in the scriptures (with which I am not overly familiar) that Jesus fed the 5000 on loaves AND fishes.
Did Jesus and/or his contemporaries possess knowledge that our modern, overpopulated, and largely industrialised world is overlooking?
I imagine that civilisations of 2000 – 4000 years knew better than to poop in the drinking water. Yet, 150 years ago in the rapidly industrialising squalor and human misery of Victorian London the human dynamic overlooked such basic advice and sank cesspits close to wells supplying drinking water. The Victorians had focused upon the achievements of their age. (Which are many)
A physician of the day, John Snow traced one outbreak of disease in Soho to the Broad Street pump and removed the handle, thus disconnecting the origin of the outbreak from the local residents. A pub built on the site of the original pump takes it’s name in memory of John Snow. There is a symbolic memorial pump nearby.
The marvel was that John Snow traced the outbreak with powers of deduction and applied, what we have come to regard as, common sense. Unwittingly, John Snow founded the valuable discipline now called epidemiology.
Man is distinguished from other creatures by his adaptability and the extent to which he changes his own habitat. The disease and misery of Victorian London was largely arising from the ‘habitat’ that man had shaped for himself; his physiological adaptability was put to the test.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
Is it asking too much of the human dynamic to be wise earlier on in a crisis?
February 24, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
My soundbyte: excess BODY fat is dangerous. Excess BLOOD fat (lipids) are dangerous. Excess CARBS are dangerous because they are the source of the above fats. See any farmer for details of how to fatten (other) animals. Dietary fat is NOT dangerous, except in the presence of the excess carbs. Plenty of anecdotal evidence supports this, and not a few studies agree. The killer (literally) is the temporal association between increased cardiovascular disease (including Type 2 diabetes) and obesity alongside the Heart Healthy Low Fat diet. In only another decade or two perhaps The Authorities will catch on.
February 25, 2009 @ 8:23 pm
Endocrine and metabolic effects of consuming fructose- and glucose-sweetened beverages with meals in obese men and women: Influence of insulin resistance on plasma triglyceride responses
http://jcem.endojournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/jc.2008-2192v1
In obese subjects, consumption of fructose-sweetened beverages with meals was associated with less insulin secretion, blunted diurnal leptin profiles and increased postprandial TG concentrations compared with glucose consumption. Increases of TG were augmented in obese subjects with insulin resistance, suggesting that fructose consumption may exacerbate an already adverse metabolic profile present in many obese subjects.
I am not suggesting that sweet drinks (sweetened with sugar) are good for you. Simply they may be marginally less destructive than HFCS that produces leptin resistance.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18703413
Higher leptin levels reduce the efficiency of you Vitamin d hormone system.
February 27, 2009 @ 2:00 am
Stress situations and ingestion of fructose and other sugars may elevate blood lactic acid that has a role in the development of atherosclerosis according the acidity theory (1)
1. Monteiro CETB, Acidic environment evoked by chronic stress: A novel mechanism to explain atherogenesis. Available from Infarct Combat Project, January 28, 2008 at http://www.infarctcombat.org/AcidityTheory.pdf
February 27, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
These drinks can also contain high levels of phosphoric acid which can lead to osteoporosis. It may be that the phenylalanine makes them addictive which they seem to be.
Hilda Glickman Nutritionist, Pinner
March 1, 2009 @ 1:13 am
appreciate the comment of Chris my equation is what is the range of carbohydrate in human body? if say to much of it courses diabetes, and also taking soft drink cause long term liver damage associated with high sugar that content glucose and a normal percentage is about 90Mn/dl or 5mnM/mol and science fund that people who drank a liter of high sugar fizzy drinks or fresh fruit juice each day were five times more likely to develop fatty liver disease. that to show 80 percent of those who had consumed high sugar fizzy drink and fruit juice had fatty liver changes, while only 17 percent of the control group are few who had not been drinking sugar or carbohydrate develop fatty liver. i come I cross that this situation as a result of consumption of high level of glucose. i hope that you put into consideration thanks.
October 30, 2009 @ 3:08 pm